Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-09

! density cOnthlulnk grease oOuiu Oo forced great distance horizontally | through a pipe by sir.
 ! PORTLAND. July 5.-A party of seven men headed by w. G. Steele, s local ex- plorer. and Nelson ". Durham of the { Oregonian, who started out Co illuminate | Mount Hood, succeeded m doing sD. | They took one hundred pounds of red | fire. The mountain was enveloped in a | light mist during the evening, and II was the general belief that tue illumina. ! tiou could not be seen when the men | reached the summit and set the fire of. | A great crowd who went to see tte fire
 works remained watching Mount Hood,
 and when the red ball of fire appeared near midnight, Sunday night, there vas
 great cheering and a dozen of steamers
 in the river sent up cheers of whistles.
 GENOA, July 5.-A committee is be- | ing organized here to arrange for the
 celebration of the four hundredih an-
 nigersary of the discovery of America
 by Columbus. all the states of America
 have been invited tO send representa-
 tlves to the celebration.
 SAS FRAScIsCo. July 5.-Tbe wooden
 man of-war, IrOquOis, third rate, com
 mandsd by Richard ?. Lasry. was at Panama May 27tb. and a cOmmunica-
 tion was sent to the navy department
 regarding her condition. Commander | I,aary states that the deck and deck | beams bsve become % rotten that the ,iyot gun aft cannot be used and the | forward pivot gun cannot be fred. l, is
 unsafe 10 fire from the port side. The
 Iroauois has been ordered to Mare ls-
 land to he inspected by board Of sur
 vey. IL ia the opinion of many officers
 that she will be condemned. She car
 ries seven guns and IS a relic of tbe var.
 LONDON. July 5.-The refusal of the | Porte 70 sign the AuglO-Turkish con
 vab,i0n IS regarded as seriously comPli-
 eating the Egyptipn question. Lord | Salisbury said this evening that the
 principal objection Of Turkey was m the | refusal of EnglGud to sccede Co the nod
 ifcatiou requested by Turkey, but the
 government w0uld not accept any modi-
 festioDs whatever.
 DENVER. July "A Pueblo special to | the News ID reference to the sensational | telegram sent by the Associated Press | from Chicago last night about Mrs. | Brooks and her story of Imprisonment | 2 | shateve- to iUstiIy or corrObOrate IL. | Dr. TbOmas, who has been superin | trDde-t of the Sts.e jusBne Asylum ever since ]: was startsd. says there has | never been child born Gt the asylum
 and the woman has never been there. | ihluCh ID her previous story sHs claim ! ed Go have hteu confined in a luDgiic ' asylum. It is not belieged here that | the woman WAS ever m Pueblo.
 CHARLESTON. Va, July 5-Yesterday | afternoon Peter Robinson (co!orsd) shO; | sud killed Charles Williams (cOlOredL at
 Caperton. The trouble grew out ot Williams intimacy with Robmson's | wife. Robinson escaped, but later sus- | iendered to the officers and was taken
 by a mob of blacks and whites and | l. uched. R0bIEson's wife, whom tue
 moo sought, took to the mountains and
 escaped the fate of her psramOur.
 QUINCY. IL, Jul , 5.-The much talked | Of leap from n balloon was made by ! Professor ThomRs 5. Baldwin at the far grounds of ;his city to-day. Over | 2j.0J0 people witnessed the perform
 auce. which WAS very daring one.
 Baldwin ascended to the heighth of
 one mile and then holding bis parachute
 launched himself into space. The parachute was about eighteen feet m ! diameter and made Of cords and strong
 silk. When the jump was made it was
 closed and for the frs, two hundred
 f-e: the aronsut dropped like a rock |.
 then as the para 'hute expanded the | speed became less rapid and tbe serOnaut
 and his strange apparatus fiosted ! steadily down like a bird. IL was 6 | grand sigh, and the descent was accom- | plished m 3 minutes, 20 seconds. Bald win struck the ground with some force,
 but not enough to iuiure hiIn. The de- ! scent varied about a quarter of mile | from the vertical and the professor | struck the ground about 8 mile and a | halt from where the ascent WAS made. Ills attempt to collapse the bslloOn
 when jumping failed, and 1t scared away
 skyward when relieved of his weight,
 Baldwin IS a native of Qaincy and 26
 years old. He was for a number
 oi years engaged m the newspaper
 busIuess here, but for the last few years
 has been studying athletics and balloon
 iDg. He made a simu'ar leap in Cali
 'oruia last winter, the distance being ! 1000 feet.
 PARIS, July i-Rouyier. premier, aud | the minister of finance have prepared budget for presentation to the chamber
 Hf deputies. IL will show a ssviug of
 l3 COOCOO francs over the last budget
 It k reported the government will raise
 the import duty on spiiits to seventy
 franc per heotolitre.
 GLASGOW, July 5-In the Western | TrcEt Club regatta In the Clyde to-day, ! tbe Thistle won eas!ly, beating tLe lrsZ and Lsnors.
 GREAT BARRINGfoN. Mas=., July D. | Ale D, th, s-U.GOO stallion belonging 70
 ihe Eugene smith stock flT1, died to- | day.
 NEw HAVEN, Com. July G. Tan | Ph1n Lee, Ct Fragrant Hills. China.
 who graduated with high hOn0rs ct Yale | lass Con menct mcnt, was to-day unIlci | iu marriage tc Miss Elizabeth Maud | Jerome, 0 New Haven heiress. ILe | ceremony Va- quietly performed at the | residence oi the brides mother. SEATTLE. VI. T., July 6.-Two white men were captured in smuggling uine | Chiuamen from Victoria Co Seattle last
 night. Their exsminstiOn k being now ! held.
 GLOBE, A, T., July 7-The Board of
 Supervisors yesterday indefinitely post
 p0ued further action in regard 10 the
 Narrow Gauge railroad.
 GLcBE. A. T., July Private Hsffy { NesIns shOs and killed Private JaEle- O'ksne Of Lieut. NcDOnald's command.
 stationed here, yesterday. O.Kane is described gs having been troublesome
 and oyerpowerinR, and that there was some justification for She shooting. NAsHISOTOS, July 7-Under date of July 4lh, Presi ent Cleveland writes Mayor Francis of Si. LOuis, stating that
 on account of the hostiie expression or
 the part of certain members of the q.
 A. K. n regard Co the propriety of his visiiing Si. Louis at the time of the Ma tionsl Encamrment, he hEs decided not tO make the visit. He refuses 10 be- lievs that the c. A. E. deem 1t a part os their mission tO compass any object by
 tempting tO corrce tie executive. vet | expressions indicate au intention to mar
 sn ucrssIcn hai should be barmonious He would submit to insults rather than dis-pPoiCt citizens If he alone were con. cerned. If, however, any are determiu. ed t0 denounea him snd hIs acts at inc eucempment be believes they should be | aHF a.N Na n